Primary Sources for Sacramento & California History

Overland Journeys

• Aldrich, Lorenzo; A journal of the overland route to California & the gold mines
  SPE 978 A365 1950 CAL; SPE 090 P714 1950a BAC VAU
• Appleton, Frank W.; Notes from my diary on the journey from Whitby to Florin
  SPE 979.404092 A649 1888 CAL VAU
• Bean, Lowell John; Diaries & accounts of the Romero Expedition in Arizona and California, 1823-1826
  SPE 979 B367 1962 CAL
• Bennett, James; Overland journey to California : journal of James Bennett whose party left New Harmony in 1850 and crossed the plains and mountains until the golden West was reached
  SPE 978.02 B471 1932 CAL
• Couts, Cave Johnson; Hepah, California! : the journal of Cave Johnson Couts from Monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to Los Angeles, California, during the years, 1848-1849
  SPE q979 C781 1961 CAL
• Covered wagon women : diaries & letters from the western trails, 1840-1890
  SPE 978.02092 C873 1983 CAL (11 volumes)
• Decker, Peter; The diaries of Peter Decker : overland to California in 1849 and life in the mines, 1850-1851
  SPE 979.404 D295 1966 CAL
• Eccleston, Robert; Mariposa Indian War, 1850-1851 : diaries of Robert Eccleston : the California gold rush, Yosemite, and the High Sierra
  SPE 979.446 E17 1975 CAL
• Eccleston, Robert; Overland to California on the Southwestern Trail, 1849 : diary of Robert Eccleston
  SPE 978 E17 1950 CAL
• Erskine, Michael; Diary of Michael Erskine : describing his cattle drive from Texas to California together with correspondence from the gold fields, 1854-1859
  SPE 976.4 E73 1979 CAL
• Ferguson, Charles; The experiences of a Forty-niner during a third of a century in the gold fields
  SPE 979.4 F352e 1923 CAL
• Font, Pedro; The Anza expedition of 1775-1776 : diary of Pedro Font
  SPE 979.402 F677 1913 CAL
• Franzwa, Gregory M.; Maps of the California Trail
  SPE 912.794 F837 1999 CAL
• Frink, Margaret A.; Journal of the adventures of a party of California gold seekers
  SPE 979.404 F914 1988 CAL
• Geiger, Vincent Eply; Trail to California : the overland journal of Vincent Geiger and Wakeman Bryarly
  SPE 978 G454 1945 CAL
• Gould, Jane; The Oregon & California trail diary of Jane Gould in 1862 : the unabridged diary
  SPE 978 G697 1993 CAL
• Griffin, John S.; A doctor comes to California : the diary of John S. Griffin, assistant surgeon with Kearny's dragoons, 1846-1847
  SPE 979.40082 G853zg 1943 CAL
• Hafen, Le Roy Reuben; Old Spanish trail : Santa Fé to Los Angeles
  SPE 979 H138 1954 CAL
• Hays, Lorena; To the land of gold and wickedness : the 1848-59 diary of Lorena L. Hays
  SPE 979.020924 H425 1988 CAL
• Heckman, Marlin L.; Overland on the California Trail, 1846-1859 : a bibliography of manuscript & printed travel narratives
  SPE 979.0016 H449 1984 CAL
• Ho for California! : Women's overland diaries from the Huntington Library
  SPE 978 H678 1980 CAL
• Howell, Elijah; The 1849 California trail diaries of Elijah Preston Howell
  SPE 979.404 H859 1995 CAL
• Hutton, Wm. R.; Glances at California, 1847-1853 : diaries and letters of William Rich Hutton, surveyor
  SPE 979.404 H985 1942 CAL; SPE 090 W264 1942h BAC VAU
• Ingersoll, Chester; Overland to California in 1847 : letters written en route to California, west from Independence, Missouri, to the editor of the Joliet Signal
  SPE 090 B6276 1937i BAC VAU

• Journals of Forty-niners : Salt Lake to Los Angeles : with diaries and contemporary records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and others
  SPE 978.02 J86 1998 CAL
• Kilgore, William H.; The Kilgore journal of an overland journey to California in the year 1850
  SPE 978 K48 1949 CAL
• Langworthy, Franklin; Scenery of the plains, mountains and mines
  SPE 978 L287 1932 CAL
• Lord, Israel Shipman Pelton; At the extremity of civilization : a meticulously descriptive diary of an Illinois physician's journey in 1849 along the Oregon Trail to the goldmines and cholera of California, thence in two years to return by boat via Panama
  SPE 978.02 L866 1995 CAL
• Loveland, Cyrus C.; California trail herd : the 1850 Missouri-to-California journal of Cyrus C. Loveland
  SPE 978 L898 1961 CAL
• MacGregor, Greg; Overland : the California emigrant trail of 1841-1870
  SPE 978 M147 1996 CAL
• McKinstry, Byron; The California gold rush overland diary of Byron N. McKinstry, 1850-1852
  SPE 978 M158 1975 CAL
• Manly, William Lewis; Death Valley in '49 : an important chapter of California pioneer history
  SPE 979.4 M279 1929 CAL; SPE 979.4 M279 1949 CAL
  SPE 979.4 M279 1982 CAL; SPE 979.4 M279 1894 CAL VAU
• Overland in 1846 : diaries and letters of the California-Oregon Trail
  SPE 978 O96 1963 v.2 CAL
• Parke, Charles; Dreams to dust : a diary of the California gold rush, 1849-1850
  SPE 978.02092 P237 1989 CAL
• Perkins, Elisha; Gold rush diary : being the journal of Elisha Douglass Perkins on the Overland Trail in the spring and summer of 1849
  SPE 978 P448 1967 CAL
• Pritchard, James Avery; Overland diary of James A. Pritchard from Kentucky to California in 1849
  SPE 978 P961 1959 CAL
• Robinson, Zirkle; The Robinson-Rosenberger journey to the gold fields of California, 1849-1850 : the diary of Zirkle D. Robinson
  SPE 090 P898 1966r BAC VAU
• Royce, Sarah; A frontier lady : recollections of the gold rush and early California
  SPE 979.4 R888f 1932 CAL
• Scamehorn, H. Lee; The Buckeye rovers in the gold rush : an edition of two diaries
  SPE 979.404 S293 1965 CAL
• Shepherd, James S.; Journal of travel across the Plains to California and guide to the future emigrant
  SPE 978.02 S548 1994 CAL
• Sherburne, John P.; Through Indian country to California : John P. Sherburne's diary of the Whipple Expedition, 1853-1854
  SPE 978.02 S551 1988 CAL
• Smith, Azariah; The gold discovery journal of Azariah Smith
  SPE 978.403 S642 1990 CAL
• Turner, Henry; The original journals of Henry Smith Turner with Stephen Watts Kearny to New Mexico and California, 1846-1847
  SPE 978 T947 1966 CAL
• Ward, Harriet Sherrill; Prairie schooner lady : the journal of Harriet Sherrill Ward, 1853
  SPE 978.02 W268 1959 CAL
• Ware, Joseph; The emigrants' guide to California
  SPE 978 W269 1932 CAL
• Wayman, John; A doctor on the California trail : the diary of Dr. John Hudson Wayman from Cambridge City, Indiana, to the gold fields in 1852
  SPE 978 W358 1971 CAL
• Wooster, David; The gold rush : letters of David Wooster from California to the Adrian, Michigan, Expositor, 1850-1855
  SPE 979.404 W917 1972 CAL